Bruce Gyngell

Bruce Gyngell AO was an influential Australian television executive, prominent for 50 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9, the first commercial TV station in Australia. He is credited with introducing the sofa format of breakfast television and in later life, for expressing his attraction to eastern ideas which ranged through Zen Buddhism, meditation and Insight philosophy.

Gyngell was bornJuly 1929 in Melbourne. According to The Guardian, among Gyngells relatives were an assorted lot of entrepreneurs. His greatgrandfather was the pyrotechnician for the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, while his grandfather, who settled in Australia, introduced Cidermaking to the continent. His father ran a flying circus before becoming an engineer with Mobil, and his mother was of Irish extraction.

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